Christian Mayer wrote:
I hate forums.
At a mailinglist I've got nothing to do - they come to me.
At a forum I must think of querying it once in a while - I have to come
to them.
It's like the difference between polling and interrupts...
- I'm getting really sick of spam.
That's a valid point. But I think that can be handeld automatically. THe
admins get 2 kind of mails:
1) valid mail that bounced
2) SPAM
3) valid user requests that aren't bounces, but legitimate requests for
help.
If you'll just have an autoresponder that tells all reasons why a mail
bounced (like: "your email address isn't registerd and/or your mail is
bigger than 40kb") valid users know how to get their next mail through -
and the SPAM doesn't affect *you* anymore.
If you really want to switch to a forum I'd only use it for the
fgfs-users mailinglist.
There I can think that the advantages outweight the disadvantages - but
we still need some people that poll that forum. An average developer
probably hasn't got the time...
Hmmm, forums for the average user base might be a worth while idea. The
one thing I do like about forums is that you can split up, categorize,
and organize the discussion areas. That's a lot harder to do with
mailing lists because of the individual overhead of subscribing to each
group, and a hierarchy of mailing lists doesn't make a lot of sense.
Curt.
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